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' G. CROUCH.

TRUNK 0R VALISE.

No. 578,545. Patented Mar. 9, 1897.

UNITED STATES ATENT Fries.

GEORGE CROUOII, O F NEYV YORK, N. Y.

TRUNK OR VALISE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 578,545, dated March 9,1897.

Application filed December 4, 189

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, GEORGE CROUGH, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anImprovement in Trunks or Valises, of which the following is aspecification.

Trunks have been made with cardboard or millboard and a surface ofcanvas, and the angles and corners have been strengthened or reinforcedby strips of leather, and these have been sewed through andrthrough tothe canvas and the' millboard. In consequence of perforating themillboard in the sewing operation such millboard or cardboard is liableto break upon the lines of perforations and the trunk or valise is weakin consequence thereof.

My present invention is especially available in trunks or similararticles in which the ends are of wood and the front, back, and top areof heavy millboard or pasteboard; but the invention is available in avariety of trunks and traveling-bags in which the millboard or cardboardis made use of.

In the drawings, Figure l is a cross-section showing a portion of themillboard and a portion of the wooden end of the trunk or other article;and Fig. 2 is a side view, partially broken open, representing themanner in which the parts are put together.

The millboard, cardboard, or similar material is represented at A, andthe surface material, such .as canvas or leather, at B. This is to becut out or properly marked, so as to fit upon the surface of themillboard, and the reinforce or angle strip O, of leather, is provided,of asuitable width, and this angle-strip is sewed or stitched to thecanvas or leather along the line 2 near the edge of such anglestrip, andit is generally advantageous to employ a second line of stitching at 3,so that the canvas or other covering material is attached ina very firmmanner to the anglestrip. After this has been done the covering materialB is glued or fastened by adhesive material to the surface of themillboard with the edge of the angle-strip O projecting beyond the edgeof the millboard, and the parts are firmly clamped together and the glueallowed to dry or set. It is advantageous to allow the glue to dry orset before the anglestrip C is bent around the edge or corner, but

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lI do not limit myself in this particular. Such angle-strip O is causedto conform closely to the end piece D of the trunk or similar article,which end piece, as before mentioned, is

canvas or other covering material B is glued onto the millboard the bodyof the trunk is made up in any suitable or desired manner by nailing theedge of the millboard to the wooden end piece D or otherwise firmlyuniting such end with the top, front, and back of the trunk or similararticle, and when the angle-strip C has been made to conform and setclosely to the surface of the end piece D it is rmly attached in placeadvantageously by a row or rows of tacks E, driven through theanglestrip and end piece with their points clenched at the inner surfaceof such end piece.Y The end piece D may have any desired surfacematerial, such as the canvas D'.

By the present improvement the millboard or pasteboard is not injured bybeing perforated and the angle-strip is so rmly attached in positionthat it will withstand the rough exposed, as well as any other portionof the structure.

From the foregoing it will be understood that the object attained by thepresent invention is to unite the angle-strip to the millboard in asfirm and reliable a manner as has heretofore been effected by sewing thesame directly through the millboard or cardboard and by the presentimprovement avoid the perforation and injury of such millboard.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a trunk or similar article having a bodyof millboard and a surface of canvas or other covering material, anangle-strip of leather or similar material sewed near its edge to thecovering material and afterward secured to the surface of such millboardby the adhesive material employed to unite the board, substantially asset forth. Y

2. A trunk or similar article having millboard forming one portion, suchas the front, top or back and an end of wood connected to the millboard,a canvas or other covering material, and an angle-strip sewed to thecovering material near its edge, and such covering material glued to themillboard to Iirmly unite usage to which trunks or valises are usuallyVcovering material to the surface of such mill.

usually of wood, and I remark that before the ICO one part of theangle-strip to the millboaid, Signed by me this 1st day of December, theother part of the angle-strip being bent 1896. and lying iiat upon theWooden end, and tacks driven through the ang1e-strip and into the GEO'CROUCH' 5 Wood for holding the edge of such angle-strip Witnesses:

to the end of the JDrunk, substantially as seb GEO. T. PINCKNEY, forth.E. E. PoHL.

